Client Care Coordinator, Okanagan Correctional Centre (OCC), Oliver, BC - Correctional Health Services

Client Care Coordinator
BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
Oliver, BC

If you are an RN or RPN who works with compassion and care while practicing trauma-informed care. You’re seeking a meaningful role that provides challenge, variety, and the opportunity to make an impact on others’ lives. As someone who is seeking to better your own practice through others, you appreciate your interdisciplinary team members and enjoy collaborating on complex care issues, using trauma informed practice, harm reduction, and Indigenous Cultural Safety.

Working at the Okanagan Correctional Centre, you’ll join an incredible team of dedicated employees, who have amazing things to say about living in the Okanagan and working with Correctional Health Services: “The South Okanagan is a welcoming and vibrant community, and the Okanagan Correctional Centre is no less welcoming to newcomers. There is always someone to turn to for help here when needed, kindness is forefront here! All are made to feel like a valuable part of our team.”

This is a 312,000 square foot, state-of-the-art, high-security correctional facility with 11 living units and 378 cells. What makes this facility one of a kind is that this is the first facility to be built through a private partnership on First Nations land.

What is Correctional Health Services?

Correctional Health Services (CHS) is a province-wide, specialized program providing care for clients who are incarcerated in one of British Columbia’s 10 provincial correctional centres. We believe everyone deserves a chance to access health care treatments and to heal, and CHS offers a non-judgmental place to help make that happen for our clients with complex needs, ensuring the provision of the same level of health care as offered throughout the province.

Learn about working as a member of the Correctional Health Services team:  https://youtu.be/Ye325fLCgJQ

Watch this video to learn about working with BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUzW-T1Ntg

You are a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse who practices with compassion and care, in a non-judgmental manner. You’re seeking a meaningful role that provides challenge, variety, and the opportunity to make an impact on others’ live. As a team player, you appreciate your interdisciplinary team members and enjoy collaborating on complex care issues, using trauma- and violence-informed practice, harm reduction, and Indigenous Cultural safety.

What you’ll do

• Coordinate client care related activities and provide leadership in the planning and implementation of innovative and creative approaches for the delivery of services.  Promote quality of care by consulting and collaborating with interdisciplinary team members to help establish appropriate goals of care and individualized care plans considering the client’s physiological, psychiatric, psychological, spiritual and sociocultural needs.
• Assist staff in operationalizing care standards, client care guidelines, protocols, clinical pathways and organizational policies.  Work with clients and the team to minimize variances from the standardized elements of care as described in the clinical pathway. Facilitate the evaluation of services to ensure program and service needs are met. Ensure adherence to established policies, procedures, and protocols including those for quality assurance and the safety of staff and clients; making sure that an adequate number of appropriate qualified clinical staff are available, coordinating equipment and other resources; and collaborating with other areas/external resources to solve operational problems, facilitating continuity of nursing care. Advise the HSM (or on-call Administrator) of any urgent patient care issues or concerns.
• Attend and participate in initial client care evaluations and admission meetings as a member of an interdisciplinary team by providing input on a variety of care issues, practice effectiveness and administrative decisions according to client care standards. Assess the client’s overall needs, conducts risk assessments, formulates initial diagnostic impressions and determines priority of care requirements.
• Review client progress and needs. Provide formal and informal consultation as needed to health care team members, other health care providers and students. Promote interdisciplinary collaboration for treatment concerns, continuity of care, crisis management protocols and community resource coordination. Assist with therapeutic interventions and problem solving, provides clinical guidance and information on complex cases, discusses client care issues and develops linkages/partnerships to meet client need.
• Establish, maintain, and enhance therapeutic relationships based on respect with client. Engage others in treatment planning and evaluation, provides follow-up planning, supports clients to manage self-care, encourages informed decision making and empowers client to improve quality of life. Teach client about management/treatment of medical conditions. 

What you bring

Qualifications:

• Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (BCCNM).
• Completion of post basic specialty nursing certificate/program if applicable, and three (3) years' recent, related experience in the designated clinical area, including working with the applicable population group when indicated, and one (1) year's related administrative/supervisory experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Valid BC Driver's License and access to personal vehicle for local area travel may be required.
• Successful completion of Occupational First Aid II (OFA II) (or OFA III techniques for positions at Ford Mountain Correctional Centre)

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of primary care practices, mental health illnesses, substance use and concurrent disorders and treatment.
• Knowledge of evidence informed nursing theory and practice, including pharmacology (indications and side-effects) and therapeutic and counseling skills.
• Knowledge of Trauma-Informed Practice and its application to the defined population of clients
• Demonstrated ability to provide effective leadership, supervision, work direction and consultation.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct comprehensive clinical assessments, utilizing relevant tools and rating scales, and formulate a treatment plan, participate in transition planning and provide crisis intervention.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate (orally and in writing) and collaborate effectively with clients, coworkers, physicians, other health care staff, and staff of external agencies.
•  Commitment to develop knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents – including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight       (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study – and how they intersect across the health care system.
• Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
• As a strong asset for consideration, we are looking for our successful candidate to have: Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (The Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).

What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

• Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
• Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
• Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
• Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
• PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may vary, depending on position).
• Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

Job Type: Temporary, Full-Time (Until July 31, 2025)
Wage: $49.20 to $ 63.47 per hour.
Location: 200 Enterprise Way, Oliver, B.C. VOH 1T2
Applications will be accepted until position is filled.
Hours of Work: Rotating; 4 days on & 4 days off; 08:00 – 19:00
Requisition: # 168485E

What we do

BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS) cares for people with complex mental health and substance use challenges.

BCMHSUS is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Cultivate partnerships – Serve with purpose.

Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services

PHSA and BCMHSUS are committed to equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently marginalized groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya'kula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at indigenous.employment@phsa.ca.

Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and marginalization faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and self-determination of Indigenous communities. PHSA must uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents such as including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.

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